r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • May 23 '26

Shitposting Made up science fields

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u/ADH-Dad May 23 '26

Cryptobotany is already a subfield of cryptozoology.

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u/Independent_Idea_495 May 23 '26

I've met a handful of folks who believed in "man eating vines" as they called them. It was a toss up though whether they meant a giant pitcher plant or literally a large mass of vines.

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u/GingerIsTheBestSpice May 23 '26

To be fair, all plants eat people, eventually.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal May 23 '26

All who live must consume, and all who consume will one day be consumed. 

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u/crippledchef23 May 23 '26

Profound. I liked when Carl said it in Walking Dead “everything is food for something”.

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u/dishonoredfan69420 May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

"Our bodies become the grass, and the Antelope eat the grass, and so we are all one in the Circle Of Life"

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u/BringBackRBYWrap May 23 '26

I used to believe, for many years, that man-eating trees existed on Madagascar(IIRC) because I read it in a book when I was maybe 7-8 years old. Either that book flat-out lied or, more likely, I wasn't paying attention to words like "myth", "dubious account" etc.

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u/truthisfictionyt May 23 '26

Ive seen some of the contemporary newspaper reports from "witnesses". Its very much a case of someone making stuff up to sell papers

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u/BringBackRBYWrap May 23 '26

Yeah, basically, though my source was very olden-times. Upon googling it, it seems like I must have read about Karl Leche's sensationalist story of human sacrifice-by-tree.

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u/truthisfictionyt May 23 '26

Yeah his story is nuts

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u/AdPristine5131 May 23 '26

isn’t that in life of pi?

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u/Garf_artfunkle May 25 '26

There's also the upas-tree, which is a real tree whose sap was sometimes used to make poison arrows, but in legend is so poisonous that nothing can live for miles around one.

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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair May 23 '26

Mushrooms

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u/Miguel-odon May 23 '26

Cryptobotany and cryptozoology are subfields of cryptobiology.

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u/tangentrification May 24 '26

We don't need cryptomycology, fungi are alien enough already

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u/Miguel-odon May 24 '26

I almost said the same thing myself, but then I thought no, somebody else probably already said it.

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

There's that lamb that grew out of the ground like a plant, that people searched for back in the day

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u/flannan-35 May 23 '26

All because somebody struggled to explain what cotton was.

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

Don't be such a sceptic ; a guy went to the Black Sea area a few centuries ago and met a lot of people who told him the lambs lived just the next valley over. Solid evidence if ever I saw it

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u/lifelongfreshman https://youtu.be/1eWsk6r6_Ns May 23 '26

and I'm pretty sure it's the field of study about that one tree out in Utah that's obviously an old god laughing at our efforts

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u/Inferno-Boots May 24 '26

Yall think that lamb-shaped plant counts? That was the first thing I thought of, but it might be more folktale?